1911 Garden Home School, all grades. This is the founding year of Garden Home School, held upstairs in the Jager store.
Courtesy Ione (Coffey) Owens Parrish. See The Hetlesater Family.

1912 Garden Home School

1912 Garden Home School. Margaret Scherner in plaid.
Courtesy Don Smith. See The history of Garden Home School, 1912 to 1982.

1916 Garden Home School graduates. Teacher Miss Magnuson. (with Margaret’s brother, Rhinehart “Duke” Scherner)
Back row: Olaf Johnson, Birtha Benz, Lena Benz, Frank Erickson, Elizabeth McBroon, John Dehaan, Wesley Beharrel.
Front row: William Kehrli, Pauline West, Wilbur Workman, Adam Dehaan, Rhinehart Scherner, Ruth Caldwell, Clause Erickson.
Courtesy Don Smith. See Don Smith.

Late 1930s Garden Home School student body

1938 Garden Home School, 1st grade. Teacher: _______.
Back Row: Zora Becvar, Julia, Bruce, Barbara, Victor Blust, Sharka Becvar.
Front Row: Jack Knutson, Celia Canfield, Don, Nancy Kamrar, George Mayness, Sheldon Aiken.
Courtesy Vlasta Becvar Barber. See Garden Home P.T.A. Minutes, 1934-1941.

1938 Czech National Dances, Ted Jensen, Vlasta Becvar, Lloyd Knudsen

1938 Garden Home Grade School, 3rd and 4th grades. Teacher, Miss Waltman. Front row, L to R: Bill May 4th, _______, _______, Harry Feldman 3rd, ___________, Clark Stephens 4th, _________ Jim Bernard 3rd.Back row, L to R: Barbara Lyons 3rd, _________, Shirley Redding 3rd, Alice Burns 4th, Ann Coey 3rd, Rosella Niebert 3rd, Lou Anne Hickman 3rd, Madeline Koester 4th, Betty Schaefer 4th, Evelyn Knudsen 4th
Courtesy Clark Stephens. See Clark Stephens interviewed December 2010.

1939 Garden Home School grades 1 and 2

1939 Graden Home School grade 8

1939 Garden Home School, OperettaIsle of Chance, sailors Ted Newton, Bill Hyde, David Replogle, Donald Mason, Buddy Upchurch, James Lyons

1939 Garden Home School, Operetta Isle of Chance, Lady Vlasta Becvar, Lord Roger Soule, Captain Ted Jensen, King Bill Worsham, Simpleta Phyllis VanDerMark, aide John Gamble Donald

1939 Garden Home School grade 1

1939 Lincoln High School.
Arthur Jones, Eunice Scofield, Jean Frazer, Bill, Irene Rickman, Vlasta Becvar, Ted Jensen, Phyllis Van Der Mark, Kathryn Hunt, Lloyd Knudsen, Mary Jane McMannis, Jean Engstrom, David Replogle.
Courtesy Vlasta Becvar Barber. See Vlasta Becvar Barber.

1939 Garden Home School, primary grades. Leo Feldman in top row next to teacher, Zora & Sharka Becvar, center front row.
Courtesy Bob Feldman. See Bob Feldman.

1939 Garden Home School Operetta: Isle of Chance; From left: Frances McMannis, June Farris, Eunice Scofield, Essie Jones, Burtene Waller, Betty McMannis.
Courtesy Vlasta Becvar Barber. See Garden Home P.T.A. Minutes, 1934-1941.

Mrs. Waltham – Garden Home School

Mrs. Wadsworth – Garden Home School

Early 1940’s Garden Home School Students. Teacher, Miss Waltman.

1941 Garden Home School

1943 Garden Home School, 5th and 6th grades.
Courtesy Vlasta Becvar Barber. See Garden Home P.T.A. Minutes, 1934-1941.

1942 Garden Home School grades 5 and 6, teacher Vera Jane Waltman

1942 Garden Home School grades 3 and 4

1943 Garden Home School grades 5 and 6.

1944 Garden Home School, 6th grade.
Top row (L to R): Adams, Ricky Newton, __,Robert Feldman, Doc Hickman, ___, Joan Blanchard, Teacher Geraldine Taylor, Janice Stinette, June Steele, Celia Canfield, Keith Huntley, Sheldon Aiken.
Bottom row: Jack Knudsen, Meldon Coffee, ___, Eddy or Jimmy Barnes, Bob Sturtavent, Ellen Smith, Dorothy?, ___, ___, ___, Murial Frame, George Mayness.
Courtesy Bob Feldman. See Bob Feldman.

1944 Garden Home School primary

1945 Garden Home School grade 3 and 4

1945 Garden Home School grade 8

circa 1948 Garden Home School 4th, 5th grades

1940s Bob Day – Garden Home School

circa 1940s – Kathy Grant & Ronnie Lingram – Garden Home School

circa 1940s 4th grade – Garden Home School

circa 1940s 6th grade, Mrs. Edwards – Garden Home School. Note the boys with rolled up dungarees, the fashion in the 1940s was to never wash your dungarees.

circa 1940s Bob Day, Karen P – Garden Home School

circa 1940s Cowboys & Pioneer gals – Garden Home School

circa 1940s Garden Home School kids – from Gertsch

circa 1940s Garden Home School kids – from Shirley Gertsch

circa 1940s Mrs. Eduwards, Mrs. Casco, Mrs.McEwen, Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Santee, Mr. Gustafson – Garden Home School

circa 1940s Mrs. Waltham – Garden Home School

circa 1950 7th grade Garden Home School

circa 1951 8th grade class, graduation Garden Home School

Garden Home School Mrs. Kaiser’s 4th grade class. (Warren Cook lower left, Robert Gertsch upper right)

Garden Home School 7th and 8th grades together, Principal Thurman, teacher Mr. Gustafson

Garden Home School graduating class of 1951, May 23, 1951

Garden Home School 1953 – 3rd grade

Garden Home School 1954 – 5th grade

Garden Home School 1955 – 6th grade

Garden Home School 1956 – 7th grade

GHS 1950s, grades 6-8, Phil McGriff, teacher

1956 Garden Home School grade 5.

1956 aerial photo of Garden Home School and Lamb’s Thriftway under construction

GHS 1957 8th Grade, Wayne Thurman, Principal

1957 Garden Home School, 7th grade, Dick Vonada, 2nd from right, first row.
Courtesy Dick Vonada. See Dick Vonada.

Garden Home School – Final student body picture 1982

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – main entrance

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – balloon release

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Bill Gellatly with students

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – school busses

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – back of building

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Field Day event with kids carrying balls between their knees

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – playground structure

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Field Day with Rick Evers and kids

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – te in long pants, girls

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Field Day with Virgil Pearce and kids

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Mary Landers, School Secretary

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – train mural in hallway

1982 Final day of Garden Home School – ribbon 1911-1982